Personality Disorders Support Group

Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.

Mindfullness is a core skill of DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy),its a big part of recovery for people with BPD.

I think the benefits are staying in the moment, encouraging yourself to relax and concentrate on one thing only for a certain time-like 5 minutes.

You could be mindfull when you are walking along, focus on how your feet touch the ground,is the ground soft or hard?What can you smell or see? It gives you a little rest from being anxious or worried,it calms you and you become more self aware and in tune with your body.

Other mindfulness exercises could be staring at the flame of a candle,losing yourself in it. Or burn some incense oil, focus on the smell. Eat something, and focus on the taste texture and smell.If worry thoughts pop back in, gently let them float away again and re-focus.

Even though I do not have BPD, I can imagine that knowing how to calm yourself is essential to gaining some control over your life and relationships. After all, a big part of BPD is emotion disregulation. Mindfulness surely would be helpful in managing your feelings, especially the more destructive emotions that tend to be difficult for others (and yourself) to handle. As someone who has dealt with a BPD father, my life would have been a lot less chaotic growing up if he had practiced some mindfulness instead of just letting his anger take complete control of him.

For the most part, I think that is what many non-BPD's are doing in a majority of their interactions - they are consciously avoiding conflict by using variations of mindfulness. So even though it is hard, it is an essential aspect of relationship maintenance to learn some degree of emotional control/balance. Mindfulness can help you learn that.

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